Well hello there!

Long, LONG time no blog. We know, we know and we do apologise for this; however it probably proves easier to explain everything this way as we have had so so many changes to our plans lately that we were confused ourselves for a while as to what we were doing...god knows what you would all have thought with all our chopping and changing! I think some people thought we were coming home this week! But, alas, no we are not!\

So, basically (as simply as it comes) the story goes like this:

• 3rd July we go to England to see my family and re-coperate.
• Spent one weekend in a cute little town called 'Tenbury Wells', some true English style streets, fish and chips and pint beers from the local pub!
• 18th July we head to Dublin; a grand birthday present (early for the 12th August - i turned 20!) from my parents! Thank you very much! We stayed for a long weekend returning to England on the 22nd, after deciding not to have a last night of accommodation, staying up all night and then sleeping on the floor of Dublin airport for a couple of hours. (Well Dave did, i read the last Harry Potter book - i'm addicted). This ended up being a bad idea as we both got incredibly sick that lasted us a nice couple of weeks.
• This whole time was spent in the area of Shropshire where i grew up, but on the 29th July we headed down to London for a few days staying with my Aunts Pippa and Emma (thanks again for having us guys, it was an awesome few days!) We did some sighseeing and then on the 2nd August we took the bus back to Paris. And honestly, the channel tunnel is the weirdest thing i've ever seen. Must also mention that we missed out on meeting up with Dave's parents in Croatia at the end of July...that was a real shame...sorry John and Janelle! But hope you had a great time, sounds like you have been.
• By this time we had decided to come home...we'll explain better in person but basically it proved nearly impossible to get jobs in France, will have to go back when we speak French!...It could help! We looked at friut picking etc too but this was also not possible. Will explain when we get home because i type too much anyway!
• So we had a week in Paris...did all the stuff you would do there...tried snails...i have a photo of Dave eating one as proof!
• On the 10th August we left Paris arriving in Hong Kong on the 11th, we got to our pre-booked hostel to find it in the middle of renovations which was lovely after a long and delayed flight (typhoons in Hong Kong!) but we got someplace in the end.
• Spent my birthday there where Dave was a wonderful boyfriend and took me to the 'Victoria Peak View Point' where you can see the whole of the city...except it went and rained and clouded in on us! It was very amusing and lots of fun anyway, we did see the view for a couple of minutes at night!
• So then on the 14th August we flew out of Macau (China) to Kota Kinabalu, which is in Malaysian Borneo and that brings us to today! We have 3 days here then fly an hour down south to Miri (same country) where my Grandad lives with his family. He owns a Bed and Brekky and we will live with then for a month and do some work for him there. His place has a website called www.borneo-holidays.com other photos here http://www.treetops-borneo.com/check it out and stay there if you're ever over here! Its a gorgeous place!
• Then on the 12th September we leave Miri for Kuala Lumpur, have one night there then fly to Sydney arriving on the 14th! We'll be seeing Liz and Matt for a couple of days which we're really looking forward too then back to Brisbane!

Told you it was a long story! I think thats enough for now...tempt you to all start reading again!

Love to you all from both of us (i think Dave may have fallen asleep), not so far away till we see you....

Love Katie and Dave xxoxoxoxo